Art History opens your eyes

Art history teaches us to look deeply and searchingly. It explores the visual cultures of diverse peoples, places, and times. Emphasizing critical, historical, and linguistic skills, as well as creativity and innovation, art history offers a bridge between traditional, language-based fields in the humanities and the creative worlds of art, architecture, and performance.

Art history teaches analytical skills that encourage a critical and inquiring approach to visual experience. Studying art history will change the way you look at not only paintings and statues, drawings and prints, ground plans and elevations, happenings, installations, and videos, but also political advertisements, a patient’s symptoms, even the graphic user interface you are staring at right now.

Art history is more than the history of art. It’s a way to look at the world.